Tag: Trump
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EDI: how clever is Elon Musk?
EDI stands for ‘equality, diversity and inclusion’. It’s the corporate-friendly, de-fanged version of anti-racism, anti-sexism and all those other things we need do to combat the obstacles neoliberalism sets up against fair play. The reason most companies spend so much time on business-friendly, colourful beanos like Pride and Stonewall but firmly reject serious campaigns for…
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The Fifth Risk, and then some more risks
The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis This book was published in the UK in 2018. It has date stamps in the front from 2020 and 2021 (some of the Sussex libraries still sometimes do things the old way). I borrowed it earlier this year, to read just in case. Since then, the Biden/Harris circus shot…
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Of Musk and Money
***long read for the weekend*** The enemy of your enemy is not your friend. Nor is the friend of your friend necessarily on the same page as you, and just to make things even more complex, your friends and comrades just might not agree with you… There’s been a noticeable change in the prevailing winds…
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Liz Truss has been listening to women
Well done, Liz Truss, for implementing some of the vital elements of the 2019 Labour Manifesto. If today’s leaked document is correct, Truss is proposing to maintain women’s protected spaces under existing sex-based rights; retain the current basis on which individuals can affirm changes in legal gender, and make so-called ‘gay conversion therapy’ illegal. Now,…
Kay Green 